Mario Benedetti Quotes

#1. A confession: solitude no longer hurt me.

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#2. Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

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#3. Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

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#4. I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

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#5. In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds

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#6. After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

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#7. The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

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#8. My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

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#9. I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

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#10. Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

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#11. We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

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#12. An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

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#13. I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

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#14. When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

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